Feb 27, 2024
I gave a talk entitled
An Overview of Privacy for Mobile Sensing Systems for the
mDOT NIH Center.
Feb 8, 2024
Along with several of my colleagues at CMU, I was named a
2024 Microsoft Research AI & Society fellow to do work on to do work on “Regulating AI in Light of the Challenges of Doing Responsible AI in Practice”.
Dec 13, 2023
I gave a distinguished lecture at Univ Wisconsin-Madison entitled
Helping Developers with Privacy.
Nov 20, 2023
New book chapter, Designing for Privacy in Mobile Sensing Systems, book chapter in
Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications.
I tried to summarize everything I know about legal, philosophical, design, and technical issues about privacy in this chapter.
July 25, 2023
My blog post
What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy? was published in CACM August 2023 issue.
May 27, 2023
I had the honor of being the 2023 commencement speaker at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math, my alma mater.
See the text of the speech or video here.
Apr 20, 2023
Our paper
What makes people install a COVID-19 contact-tracing app? Understanding the influence of app design and individual difference on contact-tracing app adoption intention won Best Research Paper 2019-2021 in Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
Apr 4, 2023
Our paper
Understanding Frontline Workers’ and Unhoused Individuals’ Perspectives on AI Used in Homeless Services won a best paper award at CHI 2023.
Jan 19, 2023
I was named an ACM Fellow!
Jun 7, 2022
Our work on
Livehoods won ICWSM Test of Time award! See the
press release and
livehoods.org web site.
Nov 23, 2021
Our paper on
Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven is a Research Highlight in the Dec 2021 issue of CACM.
Nov 23, 2021
ClearTerms data set is available here. This is a spreadsheet containing the results of several thousand crowdsourced judgements comparing different statements in Terms and Conditions for about a dozen ecommerce web sites.
Nov 7, 2021
We made
EMA data publicly available from our study on social interactions, social support, mood, and well-being during 2020 COVID.
Apr 27, 2021
New paper on arxiv summarizing our work on DARPA Brandeis project for smartphone privacy:
The Design of the User Interfaces for Privacy Enhancements for Android
Apr 24, 2021
Use our
SA-6 and
SA-13 survey instrument to assess people's security attitudes. You can also
take the SA-6 quiz online here.
Feb 10, 2021
We just received
$1M in new funding from NSF and Amazon to investigate Fairness in AI!
Oct 21, 2020
I did a keynote talk for CHIuXiD entitled
Privacy for Mobile Sensing Systems.
May 1, 2020
Our
web site showcasing our work on the user interfaces for DARPA Brandeis smartphone privacy is now up
Feb 14, 2020
I'm now a member of
CHI Academy!
Mar 13, 2019
I wrote a blog entry on CACM entitled
Why is Privacy So Hard?
Mar 5, 2019
My wife and I helped found two junior faculty chairs in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU.
Nov 30, 2018
Our team has released the
MobiPurpose data set.
It contains over 2 million unique intercepted traffic requests from 15k+ smartphone apps, gathered from our array of smartphones.
Mar 1, 2018
Wombat Security, which I co-founded in 2008, was acquired by Proofpoint for $225m!
Sep 1, 2017
I wrote a roadmap for privacy research entitled
The Privacy Landscape for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.
May 29, 2017
I was recently honored with Alumni of the Year from my old high school,
South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math.
Here is a link to my speech at the commencement.
May 16, 2017
The HCII and the Tepper School of Business are offering a
new Master's Degree of Product Management. I'm helping to run the HCII side.
Jun 7, 2016
White paper with New America entitled Toward a Safe and Secure Internet of Things.
Sep 9, 2015
Presented some of
our team's work on using smartphones for healthcare at the World Economic Forum at Dalian.
Aug 13, 2015
Our CCS 2014 paper
Increasing Security Sensitivity with Social Proof: A Large-Scale Experimental Confirmation won Honorable Mention at
NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.
Dec 26, 2014
PrivacyGrade.org presents our privacy analysis of 1 million Android apps.
Our work has appeared on
CNN,
US News and World Report,
New York Times,
CNBC,
IEEE Spectrum,
Forbes, and more.
Sep 17, 2014
My brother and I have created the
Frances and Chou-Chu Hong graduate fellowship at the Veterinary and Animal Sciences Department at the University of Massachusetts.
Oct 25, 2013
Gave a talk at
PopTech 2013 on sensing and privacy. See
slides and
video here.
Apr 9, 2012
Livehoods.org re-imagines how cities work in the age of social media.
Livehoods has been featured in
The Atlantic Cities,
Wired Insider,
MIT Technology Review,
Fast Company Co.Design,
New York Post,
Wall Street Journal, and
Haaretz.